The final version of the article "Predicting coastal erosion in St. Kitts: Collaborating for nature and culture" is now available online at Elsevier. This article was written in a joint effort by Eloise C. Stancioff, Julijan Vermeer, Anirban Mukhopadhyay, Samantha de Ruiter, G. Brown, Corinne L. Hofman

The colonisation of the Caribbean took place at the exact same time as the conquest of the Sultanate of Granada and the Canary Islands, and it was directed by the same Crown officials, carried out by the same kind of settlers and using the same strategies of domination and exploitation.

On Wednesday the 7th of March Prof. Dr. Corinne Hofman gave a lecture at the National Trust of Trinidad and Tobago about the Nexus 1492 project.

A number of environmental and natural issues have resulted in the extremely damaging effects on the archaeological site at Sauteurs Bay on the north coast of Grenada. This unique and important site is now left exposed and vulnerable to the elements. Due to heavy coastal erosion, an immense amount of human skeletal material is rapidly being washing away into the ocean. This type of devastation and loss of archaeological material has not been experienced by the local community for at least 10 to 20 years.

A thousand-year-old tooth has provided genetic evidence that the so-called "Taíno", the first indigenous Americans to feel the full impact of European colonisation after Columbus arrived in the New World, still have living descendants in the Caribbean today.

A new study published in Archaeometry describes the unexpected results obtained from analyses of five human teeth discovered in a ritual cache at an enslaved African plantation site on the island of Saba in the Caribbean.

Corinne Hofman, Jorge Ulloa Hung, Eduardo Herrera Malatesta, Joseph Sony Jean, Till Sonneman and Menno Hoogland recently published a new article in Antiquity entitled 'Indigenous Caribbean perspectives: archaeologies and legacies of the first colonised region in the New World.'

The role of indigenous peoples in shaping contemporary society in the Caribbean and global history has been inaccurately downplayed by traditional narratives of colonialism. Through archaeological excavations and surveys of over 300 Amerindian settlements in the Northern Dominican Republic, Researchers of the NEXUS1492 project show that indigenous knowledge of the Caribbean landscape was key to the success of early Europeans in gaining control of the area.

Archaeologist Corinne Hofman wins the Distinguished Lorentz Fellowship 2018/19 for research into the changing world of indigenous peoples as a result of colonialism. “The perspective of indigenous communities is still lacking in most history books."

Rebecca Scott, Bert Neyt, Corinne Hofman, and Patrick Degryse recently published a new article, entitled 'Determining the Provenance of Cayo Pottery from Grenada, Lesser Antilles, using Portable X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometry' in Archaeometry. Read about it below!